The Nomination List of 49th Golden Bell Awards

It’s that time of the year again, the nomination list of 49th Golden Bell Awards is out! In A Good Way (我的自由年代), Amour et Pâtisserie (沒有名字的甜點店), Boys Can Fly (刺猬男孩) Sun After The Rain (雨後驕陽) and A Good Wife (親愛的，我愛上別人了) are leading in the number of nominations.

The nomination list(I’m only listing down the awards related to drama category.)

Best Television Series: Amour et Pâtisserie (沒有名字的甜點店), In A Good Way (我的自由年代), Sun After The Rain (雨後驕陽), Boys Can Fly (刺猬男孩), Hakka Series – Lonely River (在河左岸)

Best Marketing Programme:In A Good Way (我的自由年代), Boys Can Fly (刺猬男孩), Lovestore at the Corner (巷弄裡的那家書店), A Good Wife (親愛的，我愛上別人了), Super Taste (Variety Show)

Blue Lan (Apple in Your Eye) finally gets into the nomination list again after 10 years without any nominations, he definitely had a long career without any award under his belt but he got a lot of potential and he’s just really bad at picking acting projects, though I think he’s improving lately through Apple in Your Eye. His career seems to be picking up after he settled down with Jade Chou (Falling). He might have a chance to win as his competitors, Zhang Ting-Hu (Apple in Your Eye, Boys Can Fly) and Hans Chung (Mr.Right Wanted, Boys Can Fly) are rookie actors so maybe they’re not as polished as him but nothing is impossible, Zhang Ting-Hu and Hans Chung are uprising rookie actors that I’ve been keeping my eye on and if Zhang Ting-Hu wins, it’ll be an awkward situation for Blue Lan as Zhang Ting-Hu is the supporting cast in his current drama, Apple in Your Eye (妹妹).

However, I think the toughest competition for him will be Junior (Sun After The Rain) and Chistopher Lee (Mr. Right Wanted, A Good Wife) as their acting are highly raved about in their respective dramas. Christopher Lee makes an impressive debut in the Taiwanese Golden Bell Awards by being nominated with the Best Leading Actor Award, he grabbed numerous awards in Singapore so maybe he’ll be able to conquer Taiwan too.

At the same time, if his co-star, Tian Xin (A Good Wife, Marry or Not) wins the Best Actress Award again this time round, that’ll be her second Best Actress Award after winning it in the year 2011 for Who’s the One(我的完美男人). Sandrine Pinna or best known as Zhang Rong-Rong (Amour et Pâtisserie) frequently gets into the nomination list of Acting Awards so she’ll probably be a strong competitor for Tian Xin. Cheryl Yang (Tie The Knot) finally gets into the nomination list again this year, it’s been several years ever since she was nominated for the Best Actress Award for Defeated Queen (敗犬女王). Like Blue Lan, I think she’s talented but need better eye at picking projects and her latest drama, Tie The Knot(媽咪的男朋友) was very disappointing to me, sigh.

Taiwanese-Hokkien-series, Sun After The Rain (雨後驕陽) might be the biggest competitor this year as there’s a bunch of people from its cast that are nominated for best leading actor, actress, supporting actor/actress awards, it’s also nominated for best directing, music, etc… It reminds me of last year’s Falling (含苞欲墜的每一天) where it had the most number of nominations. However, different from the low-key Falling, Sun After The Rain is highly received and praised in Taiwan. Hakka Series, Lonely River (在河左岸) is sooo under the radar that I’m not sure about this series but judging from how it grabbed several nominations, it might be an unexpected dark horse like Falling from last year.

I feel so bad for Lovestore at the Corner (巷弄裡的那家書店), the production team is pretty ambitious but not only they fail to gain decent rating, their recent episodes aren’t as well-received as when they first started and they’re only able to get into one nomination, which is the best marketing award. That’s a really disappointing news for them. This year, In A Good Way (我的自由年代) and Once Upon A Time in Beitou (熱海戀歌) may be able to win some “face” for SETTV which is well-known for making bad quality dramas (despite having so much resources compared to other channels!!!!) and their inability to appease the judges of drama awards.

Amour et Pâtisserie (沒有名字的甜點店) did better than my expectation in the Golden Bell Awards. I thought it’s a well-produced drama with beautiful cinematography and is a rare Taiwanese drama that adapt episodic-format (where each episode is about a separate story but they’re all connected in some way) but I wasn’t that emotionally invested into it, I was only into the yummy looking Jasper Liu (Pleasantly Surprised) and desserts, LOL! I heard a lot of positive reviews for Boys Can Fly (刺猬男孩) which is a human drama about the life struggles of a bunch of delinquent teenage boys and I’m getting curious about this drama after seeing it getting into so many nominations, I might have to marathon this some day because I find Zhang Ting-Hu cute!

Also, I was really surprised to see Jay Shih (In A Good Way) on the supporting actor nomination list, he did great as Ren-Wei but I don’t think he’s THAT great so I’m a little bit puzzled as I was half-expecting Lego Lee (In A Good Way) to make the list instead of him but anyways, good luck to him!

Some other honorable mentions are River Huang who is the new male lead of Annie Chen‘s (Love Now) new drama, Boysitter (摩女搶頭婚) is nominated for best leading actor under mini-series category and Megan Lai (Two Fathers) and Lee Kang-Yi (Love Me Or Leave Me, Man . Boy) are also nominated for best actress award under mini-series category.

The drama category of 49th Golden Bell Awards ceremony will air on 25th of October. So now the question is… who do you place your bets on winning the awards?
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8 thoughts on “The Nomination List of 49th Golden Bell Awards”

Haven’t got to watch A Good Wife or the highly raved about Fierce Wife, must be because the “husband-wife” and adultery theme doesn’t interest me but A Good Wife sounds really good so I’m happy for Tian Xin and Christopher Lee.

I had a childhood crush on Christopher Lee since I pretty much grew up with his shows in Singapore, haha… I’m happy that he did such an impressive job to make the cut into Taiwanese acting award nomination list. I love Tian Xin in Marry or Not and other shows so I have faith in her acting.I feel that they both have a pretty high chance of winning.

I think these are all pretty well-deserving nominations this year. I really loved A Good Wife and Tian Xin and Christopher Lee lead really well with their acting chops. I’m very happy for their nominations. Despite the popularity that In A Good Way garnered throughout its run, I’m quite surprised it only went down with a couple of nominations but I guess there were other dramas which were stronger in comparison. While I thought Lego Lee performed amazingly in his role as Liu Chuan, I’m not surprised to see him not nominated since he is going up against some really strong competition. I’m glad to see Jay Shih nominated though because he did a really solid building up the character of Ren Wei from start to finish. (I’m still hoping for the movie version! 😦 )

Honestly, I feel that the second half of IAGW won’t make the cut for nomination but it’s pretty well-produced for an SETTV drama. I wasn’t expecting anyone from IAGW to be nominated, but if it was someone from IAGW to be nominated, I thought it’ll be Lego Lee since he pretty much carry the whole show with his charismatic acting. But anyways, I’m also pretty happy for Jay Shih.

Yeahh, it is pretty well produced for a SETTV drama. I haven’t seem a drama like it from SETTV for ages!

Lego was really impressive with his acting but considering the competition that he was going up against, it’s no wonder he didn’t get nominated. While Jay’s acting pales in comparison, he was pretty impressive with the way he portrayed Ren Wei. (:

I think the nomination this year is pretty well-rounded, a lot of new faces too. I only watched Amour et Pâtisserie and In A Good Way out of the nominated ones so I can’t say that I watched a lot. A Good Wife had strong positive reviews, especially in the acting department, I’m thinking that one of the leads may win best actor/best actress award. But I really can’t predict who will win…